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California has been a beacon, a destination, a paradise and promised land ever since its headlong expansion in a rush of gold fever.

And, as it turns out, the rain brought a measure of gold fever back to the foothills of the Sierra.

But gold, and gold fever, have inevitably spurred conflict.

Author and Bigfoot expert Robert Michael Pyle calls Green’s malady “Bigfoot gold fever” and says those who suffer from it, exclusively men, generally lack basic survival skills for living in the woods.

So he drank some of the toxic chemical, choosing the promises of gold fever over the pain of mercury poisoning.